Elijah Paine

Elijah Paine (21 January 1757-28 April 1842) was a US Senator from Vermont from 4 March 1795 to 1 September 1801, interrupting Stephen R. Bradley. He was a member of the Federalist Party.

Biography
Elijah Paine was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut in 1757, and he served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War before becoming a lawyer in Vermont in 1784. From 1787 to 1790, he served in the Vermont House of Representatives, and then on the Vermont Supreme Court from 1791 to 1795, when he was elected to the US Senate as a Federalist Party member. From 1801 until his retirement in 1842, he served as a federal judge for the District of Vermont, and he died later in 1842.